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TIL that dogs and cats have special taste buds geared specifically for water.

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d8A68 TIL: Chinos got their name from the Spanish who named them "pantalones chinos" (Chinese Pants) because they were made from Chinese cloth.
WkYpL TIL Iceland has the highest population percentage of pot smokers at 18.3% of their country smoking weed.
Z8nKa TIL after the Chinese Civil War, several units of the Nationalist army fled to Burma. When recalled to Taiwan, some refuse and marched into Thailand, where they grew opium while fighting Communists for the government. Their village is now "one of Thailand's top ten destinations among backpackers."
gRa4 TIL the famously anti-gay Harlem preacher Pastor Manning, who’s known for vitriolic anti-LGBT hate speech, is in massive debt. An organization that provides shelter for homeless LGBT youth is raising money to buy the building his church is housed in to open an additional shelter at that location.
d81ZQ TIL: A 17th Century Indian religious poem (30 couplets long) when read forward recites the story of the God Rama and the same when read backwards recites the story of the God Krishna.